Winona Lake Community Colaboration

I am spending this weekend at an art fair at Winona Lake, Indiana, and brought this bowl with me to burn. I started today at 8 in the morning and finally finished it at 6 this evening. This is a pretty special bowl. I let the kids who came by the booth help a little, and had them sign the bottom. I had a lot of fun with it, and I think at least a few of them might be getting wood burners soon. It was a great feeling to pass along a love for wood, and the joy of creating. I think I might just keep this piece, as a trophy.

Yet another beautiful piece of art. It is great to pass things on. lol I got a wood burning kit for a gift as a kid and it still holds happy memories for me as well as instilling a love of beautiful woods and what we can do with them.

-- woodlandsprite * Setting out to change the world is for most of us doing the best we can to improve our little corner of it.*

The only training I have on pyrography is from a book I got at the library, and the author suggests having a woodburner at shows, to let people try it out, except he has people try to write there names with it. Writing with a woodburner is probably the hardest thing to do with one, so he is esssentially setting people up for failure. His mindset was that if people see how hard it is, they will appreciate his work more.

That is complete horse crap. I want people to see that it is not terribly difficult to create something, especially kids. I have taught anyone who asks how to do what I do, and I am proud when someone excels at it., It might not be good for my business, but it is good for the future of the craft.

A very cool looking bowl, beautiful wood and an amazing looking design.I agree i would not be selling it but placing it in a book case, shelf or cabinet with a light shining on it because it sure deserves to be in the spotlight. Great work of art.

Great looking bowl and the burned design looks great with the nice wood you used. I especially liked that you had some kids doing some burning work on it. I can’t think of a better way than that to get youngsters excited about woodworking. You deserve an A+ for that.